II New Titles
| DOI | 10.1177/016934411102900114 |
| Date | 01 March 2011 |
| Published date | 01 March 2011 |
| Subject Matter | Part D: Documentation |
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Children’s Rights and Human Development: a multidisciplinary reader / Jan C.M.
Willems (ed.). – Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010. – xvii, 946 p.
ISBN: 978–94–000 –0032–2
Investing in early child hood, positive parenting and child rig hts education makes
sense – from bot h a huma n, a hu man development, a human r ights, a child rights
and an economic perspective. is reader brings toget her subs tantial texts from
many elds and discipli nes which illustrate and elaborate th is point. Arranged in ten
chapters titled according to pert inent child rights principles and concepts, these texts
oer a state-of-the-art view of the progress made in the past decades and years i n
several elds of human knowledge. In between these texts several news and factual
items inform the reader on the gap that still exists between what we know and what
we do to ma ke this world a better plac e for ch ildren, and thus to promote human
development and better protect human right s.
e d elivery of human rights: essays i n honour of Professor Sir Nigel Rodley / Geo
Gilbert, Françoise Hampson and Clara Sandoval (eds.). – London: Routledge, 2011.
– xix, 249 p.
ISBN: 978–0–415–57992–6
is compilation of e ssays reects on two overlapping issue s in international human
rights law: how can ex isting norms be better implemented and ee cted, and how can
other branches of international law or other international actors be used so as to provide
an i mproved de livery of t hose norms. R ather than simply looking at the content of
the rights, t his book also explores how the fra mers’ intention that individuals benet
from the norms can be achieved. e book is written and published in honour of Nigel
Rodley. Professor Rodley acted as the UN Special R apporteur on Torture from 1993
to 2001 and is currently a member of the UN Human Rights Comm ittee. He is also a
member of the International Commission of Jurists. Since 2001 he has been a Member
of the UN Human Rights Comm ittee, established under the International Covenant
on Civil and Politica l Rights.
Equality, dignity, and same-sex marriage: a rights di sagreement in democratic societies
/ Man Yee Karen Lee. – Leiden: Mart inus Nijho, 2010. – xvii, 264 p.
ISBN: 978–90–04–17926–4
is book investigates the concepts of equality and d ignity under same-sex marr iage
jurisprudence. Having surveyed the multinationa l developments of same-sex marriage
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